Posted: 9/29/2005 12:06 AM
Post subject: Help - Converting .smv to avi
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Tailz
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Ok, I got a little curious and wanted to try to convert one of my .smv files into an avi file. I followed the instructions given on the site, and I got to the part where you need to use LAME. The site instructions say to open a DOS Shell (MS-DOS Prompt, command prompt, whatever) and browse to where the LAME executable is. This is my problem. There is no executable for LAME. It says use LAME.exe but that doesn't exist... I downloaded LAME from here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lame/lame-3.97b.tar.gz?download I got it from there because the link on from the site isn't working. Can someone help me please?
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Posted: 9/29/2005 11:14 AM
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Warp
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Google is your friend. What you want is a windows binary of lame. I'm sure you can find one by using google. (Just try "lame windows" or whatever.)
Posted: 9/29/2005 2:25 PM
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Tailz
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Thank you for the help, that got me past that part. Now I'm stuck at another part. I'm at the end of the Encoding video using the XviD codec step. I've followed the instructions to the letter, setting everything to what it told me to do, and the easiest part is giving me an error. It tells me to go to File>Save as AVI. I do that, name my file and I get this error: "Cannot initialize video compression due to codec error: The source image format is not acceptable." What does that mean? Did I do something wrong? Am I missing something?? It sounds like it doesn't like my original avi file or something, I dunno.
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Posted: 10/25/2005 3:07 PM
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ventuz
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Isn't .smw just an inputs (no images)? Or you just lost me. *my bad, i didnt realize im replying to 1 month old thread. darn diablo 2*
Posted: 10/27/2005 4:56 PM
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Tailz
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Sure it's a month old, but I still need the help lol!
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Posted: 10/27/2005 7:06 PM
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That's because the image size must be multiple of 8?
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Posted: 10/27/2005 7:14 PM
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Tailz
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Multiple of 8?
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Posted: 10/27/2005 7:16 PM
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Bisqwit
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Tailz wrote:
Multiple of 8?
I think it's 16, actually. The resolution of the image must be evenly divisible by 16 both in horizontal and vertical directions. 256/16 is even, so is 224/16, but 232/16 is not even nor is 223/16. (No, I don't understand anything of your problem. That's why I haven't replied to the thread.)
Posted: 10/28/2005 2:43 PM
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Highness
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Taliz - Have you tried to output your video using any other codec besides Xvid? Maby you are trying to use 2-pass 2nd pass, and perhaps you haven't ran the first pass yet? Besides, thats no good idea to do within the emulator anyways. Try to output the avi to some raw format of AVI, then use virtualDub to encode it with 2 passes xvid or what ever your choice is.
Posted: 11/24/2005 6:45 AM
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Tailz
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SUCCESS! I finally got it to work! I think I was choosing the wrong color setting. The instructions call for 16-bit (High Color/32k), so I chose the second 16 bit option. I'm pretty sure that was the problem because once I chose the first one, it worked. The thing is, the files are unusually large. I converted my Jurassic Park run to avi, it's 1:03:29 when converted became 652 MB. I used the Xvid codec to dump the raw avi because when I used Huffyuv Virtuadub crashed. I compressed it with the Xvid codec as well, just like the instructions said to. Everything went smoothly, the avi works great. Any ideas why it would be so big?
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Posted: 11/24/2005 6:54 AM
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Dada
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Bisqwit wrote:
Tailz wrote:
Multiple of 8?
I think it's 16, actually. The resolution of the image must be evenly divisible by 16 both in horizontal and vertical directions. 256/16 is even, so is 224/16, but 232/16 is not even nor is 223/16. (No, I don't understand anything of your problem. That's why I haven't replied to the thread.)
Not for MPEG-4 XviD, which has no limitations. It would be too large because you probably used a quantizer setting that's too high, or a high bitrate. Try sacrificing some quality over filesize.